Get Involved by Scott Dunn

This is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight. (Philippians 1:9 ESV)

The ministry that Jesus built was a call to every person to reach out to someone hurting and broken (Matthew 5:14- 16)—to show them the gospel and bring them to God through Christ. We know He is the only way to Heaven. He is the keeper of the key that unlocks the bountiful blessings that God will lavish upon us by living in His will. We need to be involved in more than just Sunday service. Not because the church needs us (it does, it always needs good folks) but because our Savior, our God desires it!

Why You Should Get Involved

Aside from God’s wish that we connect to our family in Christ, we should want to for our own benefit and the chance to benefit others. When we get involved, we are being servants of God and showing our brotherly love for our community. We are taking a huge next step because now we are moving beyond being saved and attending church; to proactively showing and speaking our testimony. We become the army of Christ who helps people fight through troubled waters.

Have you ever felt the reward of helping a friend through a rough patch? Amplify that a hundred times. When you speak life into someone who is spiritually dead, and they turn from a road to perdition and take the expressway to salvation. That is the amazing feeling of service through God’s will that we crave! How awesome of an award is that?!

How to Get Involved

Getting involved in your church should not be hard. It should be easy because many offer programs like small groups where you can commune with other people whom you may not have met otherwise. Even in times like now, when we have a pandemic still ravaging the world, churches are connecting online, and small groups happen by Zoom. Stop by their guest services desk and ask them about a small group. Maybe your gift is your love for children; ask about volunteering to educate the smallest of the bunch and help raise them in God. For me, personally, this is huge. I cannot express how much I love hearing my kids talk about the Creator.

Maybe you are not good with social functions, and that is okay. The church has something for everyone. How can we grow if there are no opportunities to do so? All it takes to get involved is the intentional action of asking how you can help and a willingness to do God’s work in whatever form He has gifted you to excel in. Sometimes those gifts do not even present themselves until you are on the path of something you think you would have never done. Before the pandemic, my wife was going to go on a mission trip to Peru. I never expected her to tell me she wanted to go, but I was all for it.

That is the beauty of getting involved in God’s work. He may ask you to do something you would never imagine doing, only to show you how He will equip you to join him on this journey. It is not just an act of faith that God will do as He says. Faith requires no evidence for belief or practice. It also is an act of trust. You have seen God do great things. Maybe He has not done something directly in your life, but that is okay. You have faith that the path God put you on will lead to success because you trust in the things you have already seen. We often use them the same, but the reality is faith comes before trust, and evidence that produces trust deepens your faith. It is an amazing relationship that God invites you into because He loves you.

Final Thoughts

Loving people means you help when you can and where you can. You support them in the same way. Do you know how Jesus showed us love? He shared the Gospel with us. He walks with us as we realize salvation, and then we receive that Gospel into our darkest places. Then He died for us because He knew that His sacrifice could get rid of every wrong man had or would commit. To put it in a rather geeky sense, the needs of the many outweighed the needs of the few or the one. He knew that His destiny was death for our sins. Yet, He persevered and put aside any doubt and fear to still being betrayed, as man has done repeatedly. He was arrested and accused of being false, again as man has done before, and then He was slain just like man has done ever since the beginning.

We should get involved and let the world know the history of their Savior. If only for that, we should speak life and we should do our best to show love. Jesus did, and He paid the ultimate penalty for us.

Scott Dunn is a Christian husband and father who has spent over 15 years in the telecommunications industry. He is the founder of Talking with God (https://twgpodcast.com), a podcast that seeks to educate and encourage a closer relationship with God.

Scott is a northerner who migrated south and has fully acclimated to the wonderful area known as the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. He serves at his local church by helping with the production and online streaming of services.

He has a genuine passion for the Christian man and his responsibilities, often writing about them on his blog https://justholdfast.com. Here he shares open and real-life experiences so that other men can relate to the human condition and how that relates to a stronger love relationship with God.

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